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ePUB
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Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
31.07.2024
Verlag
E-artnowSeitenzahl
21051 (Printausgabe)
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22929 KB
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Englisch
EAN
4066339593251
Spanning archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire and its modern interpretation, History of Ancient Greece and Roman Empire: 24 Essential Books gathers historiography, memoir, biography, geography, and political analysis into a capacious record of Mediterranean antiquity. Military narrative, constitutional inquiry, ethnographic observation, imperial chronicle, and moral portraiture coexist, allowing landmark accounts of the Persian Wars, Peloponnesian conflict, Roman expansion, and imperial decline to speak across centuries. The collection's range foregrounds both the grandeur of public events and the contingencies of power, character, religion, and place. Its contributors represent Greek and Roman historical writing at its most influential, from eyewitness participants and imperial administrators to biographers and geographers attentive to the peoples beyond Rome's borders. Their divergent social positions, political commitments, and literary methods illuminate the development of classical historiography: civic inquiry, pragmatic analysis, republican moralism, imperial critique, and universal history. The inclusion of major modern historians extends this dialogue, demonstrating how antiquity was received, systematized, and contested within nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking a broad, comparative entrance into the ancient world. It offers an exceptional opportunity to trace recurring questions of war, governance, citizenship, empire, and historical causation through multiple voices and genres. Students and general readers alike will find in its breadth a rich educational resource and a sustained conversation about how history is written, remembered, and used.
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